“We made the house what it should be,” Ralph Lauren points out. “It’s in the spirit of Round Hill—very quiet, very elegant.” Upholstery linen, Ralph Lauren Home.

“We live on the veranda,” Ralph Lauren says of the loggia/dining terrace. “The goal was to make our family comfortable in a luxurious setting,” explains Ricky Lauren, who wrote a book about Jamaica called My Island. “We go there as often as we can escape.”

“It had carpeting inside and outside; that’s strange in Jamaica,” Ricky Lauren says of the house, built in the 1950s. “It took a lot to restore it. Now it’s like a plantation house.” The master bedroom has banana-leaf matting. Mosquito netting, Ralph Lauren Home.

“We made the pool quite a bit bigger,” remarks Ricky Lauren, “and put in a lot of plantings as well.”

In 1996 the couple purchased a beach house just down the hill and renovated it. They named it the White Orchid. The interior courtyard. “The great house has a classic feel,” says Ralph Lauren. “The White Orchid is clean, barefoot and luxurious.”

Marble floors were installed in the living room.

The couple expanded the pool deck. The beach house is “like being on a boat,” notes Ralph Lauren. “The greenness of Jamaica is gorgeous. The air is very mild. It feels like a paradise. There’s a naturalness and ease of living. It smells like a beautiful place.”

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